Do you have to refresh a test or QA server from the production system? Do you have a good process or is it a spur of the moment, let's get it done thing? Here's a look at Steve Jones' process, which was used weekly for well over a year.
2004-05-17
7,770 reads
What happens when you have a day job, a web site, a new job at work, and a baby? Chaos! See what Andy's been up to the past few months. It's off topic from SQL of course, but it contains an interested bit or two.
2004-05-14
5,546 reads
Do you run an anti-virus product on your SQL Servers? After all, it's recommended, more and more, that you run anti-virus on ALL machines you have. There's just too much stuff running around out there. But putting this on a SQL Server creates some interesting issues. Our resident security guru, Brian Kelley, looks at some of the things you need to consider when deploying anti-virus products on your servers.
2004-05-13
23,864 reads
This article by Andy Warren talks about using sp_addlogin to move logins from one server to another. It also points out a problem you may run into if you have a SQL 7 server that was upgraded from 6.5
2004-05-12 (first published: 2001-05-01)
10,945 reads
How can you tell if your code if performing well? Do you know what you want to look for when starting to analyze code? Here's an article from Leo Peysakhovich that looks at some of the things that you can use at a high level to improve the performance of your code.
2004-05-11
12,465 reads
Here's a little replacement for Query Analyzer that appears to provide most of the functions, plus a few more. While we haven't given it a full review, at first glance it appears to do the job. Plus there's NO INSTALL!!!! Always a plus for me.
2004-05-07
760 reads
How many of you register a server in Enterprise Manager? Now how many of you click the "save password" box? Probably most of you. Are you aware of the security risks associated with this? James Travis looks at one of potential problems here and other security issues relating to SQL-DMO.
2004-05-04
7,615 reads
Another look at how the next version of SQL Server will integrate and work with .NET technologies.
2004-04-30
744 reads
Although Brian likes that Microsoft delayed the next release of SQL Server for quality, he disagrees with the release strategy. See his opinion and argue your own!
2004-04-29
9,027 reads
It's been some time and he apologizes. This next part of this series from Steve Jones looks at selective auditing changes to data on the server using a combination of methods presented in previous articles in the series. Read on if you have problems tracking changes to data on some tables, but don't want to implement a solution that tracks every change.
2004-04-28
12,825 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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